Office Installation File folder on the Desktop
contained something like 129MB of files, one of which is
openofficeorg1.cab of 129MB. Do you have that file?
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that 100% compatibility should be possible.
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When you click outside the table, make sure the vertical flashing cursor
actually moves to somewhere outside the table. Sometimes, depending
where you click, the cursor doesn't actually move outside the table.
Then Ctrl-A.
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Unfortunately, Gimp does not load .PDF files,
It can, if ghostscript is installed and if the environment variable
GS_PROG points to the ghostscript directory, eg. C:\gs\gs8.71\bin (for
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Then the column should import as proper dates and you can format
appropriately.
[OOo 3.2.1, Windows]
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in, say, the cell A1. Then click
in the cell and it should be highlighted, with a small black square
handle at the bottom right of the cell. Click and drag that down and
the cells will be filled sequentially.
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As a workaround, this worked for me: select entire sheet, copy, create a
new sheet and paste to it. Column insertions can then be done.
Right clicking on the bottom sheet name|Move/copy sheet did not work for me.
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are hidden too, and
this process leaves them hidden.
Rows could always be added (right click on row number), so long as a
column was not already selected.
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R, then followed by the letter y?
If so, why does
x overline R y
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version of Publisher in order to
open publisher files. No other known program will open these files.
This on-line conversion site claims to be able to convert from Publisher:
http://www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php#documents
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).
So I went back to the Oracle Web site and there Update 19 was available.
This was all in the space of half an hour.
So I installed Update 19 from scratch and this time the splash screen
omitted reference to PDF import.
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and paste into Writer, but losing layout. You can also individually copy
and paste images.
But that process will treat every end of line as an end of paragraph.
Yo may want to check out the free on-line PDF to .DOC converter that
preserves paragraphs: http://www.pdftoword.com/
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the title.
Strange. Have you re-tried the modify button and change icon...
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I would prefer it too if the
default Paste was unformatted, or if the default could be changed.
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Thanks, Larry. On my Kubuntu system, after some experimentation, I
discovered that it is Shift-Ctrl-V. That is great to know. Thank you!
In Windows, in Writer, Ctrl-Alt-Shift-V invokes Paste Unformatted Text
directly. It's changeable in Tools|Customize|Keyboard|Shortcut keys.
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, but does the table extend to two pages, and if so,
is the heading repeated? That may be a factor, but again I could not
reproduce the problem.
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process does not work... the closest I could get was to adding a Paste
Special icon, which then brings up an option of Unformatted text,
requiring some more mouse clicks.
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500,000
pages in 13 days!
Getting off topic now, but if this is a one person job, working 12 hours
per day non-stop, I figure that's about 53 pages per minute, or about
one per second!
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Thunderbird the default e-mail client was not sufficient.
Look at Start|Set Program Access and Defaults|Custom, then specifically
choose Thunderbird, rather than simply use the current e-mail software,
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operator there. See if
this suits your purposes:
=COUNT(range)-COUNTIF(range;=5)-COUNTIF(range;=10)
That is, count everything, then take out what you don't want.
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Is it possible to check a range of cells to see if the values are
between two defined values:
countif(range,5 and 10)
I cannot seem to get it to work. I get a count of zero even though
there are many values that qualify.
It's not clear if it's possible
. But if you want the original column to
end up with real hyphens, then do Edit|Copy (given that B1:B10 is
already highlighted), then select A1 and do Edit|Paste Special... and
select only text and numbers. Allow the overwrite.
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In (cough) other spreadsheet software I'm used to starting find and
replace, hitting the 'entire cell' check box and leaving the find box
blank, thus I can find (and fill) all the empty
are in A12:B17) but if the items change
the data pilot results change, changing the number of rows in the
result, making the COUNT formula incorrect.
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margin, I think. It does
not open nicely in OOo, so use a text editor or do some post processing
with something like awk.
As I said, not pretty!
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is a waste of paper, but at least it lets me get the job done.
In that case, perhaps delete pages 1 and 3 (making a backup, of
course!), and duplicate your page 2 so you have two A4 pages of that,
then print that as a brochure. You should then get two pages per sheet.
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on the inner.
So, in Writer, make four pages of the same text. That should produce two
sheets, each with two pages on it.
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And, ...it requires the OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta 2 to work.
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weird - because it does not happen to me! Both are 17cm for me
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will be reflected in the other. Alternativley, you can open a
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of the first things the installer does is say that it needs to unpack
the files. The default location (for English) is:
C:\Documents and Settings\[user-name]\Desktop\OpenOffice.org 2.4 (en-US)
Installation Files
I suspect you unnecessarily changed that location to your Desktop.
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Somewhat ambiguous; the word only is in the wrong place if the intention
is prohibit use of the software to read documents not created by MS
products. Anyway, if someone were to send me a .doc file, how would I know
if it was created by MS Word or not?
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was not sent directly to you, and as you are not subscribed you would not
have received the answer. If the solution presented does not work, write
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do not have to uninstall OOo if you are going to install
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a Microsoft product?
Either save your document as a .doc file (File|Save As and choose the type)
(assuming by document you mean a word processor file), or if you are sending
by e-mail: File|Send and pick PDF or Microsoft Word.
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if you have a flash drive inserted, you can simply
save directly to it. Or save to the hard drive, and then copy using the
normal Windows (I presume) method of drag and drop.
To burn to a CD, use whatever data burning process you have used up to now
(from outside OOo).
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sending them a file? And can they then read
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PLEASE someone tell me there's a better way.
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word/office (which I had originally until my hard drive was corrupted)?
Do File|Save As and select .doc. Or, export as PDF files.
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from being .bak) and then
open them with OOo. Maybe an older fuller version is there.
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It says it does not reconize the software and some is unknown.
Jessica
Please explain in more detail. What is it? What are the exact error
messages you get, and what are you doing at the time?
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this problem. If
I remember how many cells I've got in the table I can usually click on
a cell and enter data, but I can't see anything until I either grab
the table or click on a cell.
See if Tools|Options|OpenOffice.org Writer|View|Display|Tables is unticked.
If so, tick it.
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http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=74860
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without the columns being differentiated. But, Edit|Paste Special|HTML
format worked. Again, the drop down arrow on the Paste toolbar icon shows
only Unformatted text as an option, and then prompts for field delimiters.
Strange!
[XP Home, OOo 2.3]
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downloaded? Do you keep trying to run
that same file name each time? Of course, if you do, you will get the same
results each time.
Is there a SETUP.EXE file in the location where the files are unpacked? Have
you run that?
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an e-mail address that lost it's server loong ago ;-) don't
remember how !!!)
http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html and read the Newsgroups section.
In short, you need to subscribe to gmane, but you do not need to subscribe
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Number recognition in a table is driving me nuts. I set the cells to
Text, I set the entire table to Left, and yet every time I type a
number into a cell
. How can I turn off this unwanted feature?
Right-click somewhere in the table; click to untick what is called Number
Recognition, believe it, or not!
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Oh - I think you are referring to Draw, which I see now does have those
limitations. In fact, if you pick larger page sizes, such as A2, A1, A0,
the page size is 300x300 for them all.
Is this a bug
/word97win/Wd55_be/97/WIN98/EN-US/Wd55_ben.exe
Win98 version?
No - Word 5.5 for DOS.
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found that - couldn't easily find it
using any MS search procedures. Anyway, it actually worked in Windows XP in
a full screen window! I didn't try any modern .doc files, though.
Not that this has anything to do with OpenOffice, of course.
I know!
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OOo_2.3.0_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe).
If so, what happens when you double click on it?
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and install the Sun build from OOo. (In an ideal environment, you
could download and install both.)
The standard Ubuntu build already includes OOo; no separate download or
installation is required.
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the OOo
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Do you know how to go about that? (getting the OOo website changed)
The issue is:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=74860
Vote for it, if you want to raise its profile.
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). Click that and you will be able to
choose the destination path.
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The Windows version works with all Windows from 98 to Vista. That is
the package you want. Also, it's not complimentary.
Complimentary can mean free :-)
http://www.answers.com/complimentaryr=67
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of
the text that you next type. It's not so convenient, though.
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. IMO a great many of the can this
be installed on questions could be cleared up by simply fixing the OOo
website.
I opened an issue for this back in February:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=74860
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OpenOffice.org software is available as a free download from
www.openoffice.org and that site does not sell software. However, other
vendors may, so you'd have to contact the site you actually purchased from
if you believe you have been misinformed.
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else had
this problem? I don't want to download without having the
instructions! Thank you. Jill
Please explain exactly what these instructions are. Where did you get them
from? Are they a Web page? If so, what is the Web address (URL)? Or are they
some downloaded file? If so, what?
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discovered View|Print layout, (compared with
the default View|Normal), and the images then appeared!
If I open the .doc file in Corel WordPerfect 8 then the images appear.
What version of Word are you using? Perhaps there is a different View option
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tried various other things to
get started but it failed. I had to roll back to an earlier restore point.
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(as the subject line
implies). If so, there may be a problem with that. And if they are wanting
to completely switch from MS to OOo, I'm wondering why they would not be
using a normal hard drive installation?
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always a free download from
www.openoffice.org and it does not expire tomorrow.
My wild guess is that they may be referring to some free download period
provided by their ISP.
However, some of the questions on the list are certainly good at honing our
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have to go through a short
second phase of an installation.
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Would I be right in assuming that Openoffice does not work with windows
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No.
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to exit Edit mode.
If the cursor is in an input box in a dialog that has a Minimize button, the
dialog is hidden and the input box remains visible. Press F2 again to show
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the earlier on this but 90, 180 and 270 degree rotation is
possible if you copy and paste an image into Draw then look at
Format } Position and Size i think it is.
You can actually rotate by fractions of a degree (in Draw, that is).
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this document locally instead and attach it from within your e-mail
client.
(Same results if I do save the Writer document in step 2.)
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click the second column in my section.
At the end of the text in your first column:
Insert|Manual break|Column break|OK
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What operating system and version of OOo?
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Ctrl-Enter.
But you have to do that in the cell itself (F2 to edit), not in the formula
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bit of Open source software that exists on the internet. Correct
me if I'm mistaken, but your software is free right?
Yes.
Or does this person actually have permission to sell your software?
Yes. As you do.
See http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/mostfaqs.html#3
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block; highlight the characters you want to change colour. Then:
Format|Character|Font Effects|Font Color.
Or, when you are inside the text box, there should be a tool bar font color
icon (looking like a capital A with a bar under it).
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Because of the number of questions about Vista compatibility the mailing
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I could not find any other Issue for anything similar.
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packaged other software (anti-virus etc) and integrated
other tools into their program, based on OpenOffice.org software. Somewhat
confusingly, theirs is called Open Office Suite.
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downloads.
http://download.openoffice.org/2.1.0/downloadtools.html
Here's another free one not on the list:
http://www.stardownloader.com/index.php
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